Am I dating myself if I dare say I used TOPS?
Can you say TECO?

I still shudder....

-Walt :-) :-)

-----Original Message-----
From: William Chops Westfield [mailto:billw@CISCO.COM]
Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2000 10:16 AM
To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: Re: [OT] "Best" Editor (was: "Syntax Highlighting in MPLAB")


    xxxxxxxx clearly is the best Windows editor there is.
                                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

This is the problem, of course (or part of it, anyway.)  When I picked my
editor, I wanted something that ran on CPM, TOPS20, TOPS10, and unix.  At
the time, EMACS was the only thing that came close (MINCE for CPM, FINE for
tops10, elle or cmuemacs for unix, IIRC.)  Nowdays the situation is a bit
cleaner, since PCs have approached the capabilities (performance-wise) of
the mainframes of yore (so more editors are available cross-platform and
more consistant versions), and the number of contending operating systems
has gone down (a bad thing, IMHO, but still a fact of life.)  But the number
of editors that you can run on all of (MacOS, unix, Windows) is still pretty
small.  (of course, what with mice and more consistant function key
behavior, it's now pretty easy to do "simple" editing tasks all in GUI
windows, but that's not a "real" editor...)

BillW